By communicating with strategic partners, third-party systems, and equipment throughout the shop, Avanti Slingshot eliminates costly, time-consuming manual steps.
Using industry-standard JDF allows Avanti Slingshot to integrate seamlessly, linking your Print MIS with your other business software, prepress, production, and bindery systems to reduce errors, increase cost transparency, and save time.
Avanti is a member of CIP4, a not-for-profit standards association, whose mission is to foster the adoption of process automation in the printing industry. Avanti actively participates in focus groups to help define future versions of JDF to continue meeting industry and customer expectations. Avanti Slingshot has earned JDF certification for both MIS to Prepress and Integrated Digital Printing. The list of Avanti supported prepress software and production equipment for both the print shop and the bindery is growing every day, providing access to integration to customers of all sizes. It gives any shop the ability to connect their automation solutions through Avanti Slingshot to update job status, collect costs, and adjust inventory, all in real time.
When a job created in Avanti Slingshot is released to production, the JDF module sends as much information as the system receiving the job can understand.
Information exchanged between systems is dependent on the creator of the data but can include:
With Avanti Slingshot’s JDF Framework, new integrations can be achieved within days, not months. And with lower integration costs, your ROI improves.
Xerox FreeFlow™ Core
Ricoh TotalFlow™
HP SmartStream™
Kodak Prinergy™
Konica Minolta Printgroove™
Robust integration between Avanti’s Accounting module and a variety of third-party partners provides flexibility in choosing the best solutions for your business, while ensuring data remains accurate and nothing is missed. While each integration may have unique features and connections, the results are the same: reduction of manual, and often costly, data entry time and errors.
Eliminate islands of automation throughout your shop with Avanti Slingshot. Avanti Slingshot is the central hub of your operation, exchanging information with all of the key applications and equipment you count on to run your operation.
JDF integration enables seamless integration between Avanti Slingshot and your Bindery equipment. Quick to set up and easy to use, it saves you money and time while reducing room for error.
Manually collecting machine data takes time and results can be questionable due to human error. Avanti’s Direct Machine Interface (DMI) captures the data automatically through a link to the machine’s controls.
With Avanti Slingshot’s Shipping module, you can easily integrate with major shippers and track shipments after transferring shipping and billing information.
Integrations include:
Avanti Slingshot’s award-winning Advanced JDF framework creates a seamless link between the MIS and third-party prepress solutions. Information such as job parameters and production data flows both directions. Both quick to set up and easy to use, it has the ability to increase a company’s ROI through time and money saved.
Avanti Slingshot minimizes Web-to-Print complications with a Third-Party Web-to-Print Integration (API). Avanti Slingshot becomes the hub of the wheel, collecting order information from all order streams. Tight integration with multiple third-party solutions enables automatic data transfer between Avanti Slingshot and your order entry system through XML or JDF file formats for faster turnaround time and fewer errors by eliminating rekeying of information.
Features include:
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